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X-WR-CALNAME:HAI Weekly Seminar with Amy Zegart
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amy Zegart\, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Insti
 tute for International Studies\; Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fe
 llow at the Hoover Institution\; Professor\, by courtesy\, of Political Sc
 ience\, Stanford University\n\nTitle: Spies\, Lies\, and Algorithms: The H
 istory and Future of American Intelligence\n\nAbstract: A contributing wri
 ter at the Atlantic\, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution\, and author
  of Spying Blind: The CIA\, the FBI\, and the Origins of 9/11\, Zegart rep
 orts that the digital age has made intelligence gathering vastly more diff
 icult. Agencies once concentrated on foreign governments and terrorists. "
 Today\," writes the author\, "they also have to understand American tech g
 iants—and how malign actors can use our own inventions against us." The 
 National Security Agency\, the traditional big data behemoth\, faces compe
 tition from Google\, Facebook\, Apple\, and Amazon\, and Twitter and Faceb
 ook have become disinformation highways. Zegart warns that Americans get m
 ost of their ideas on intelligence agencies from the movies: Torture alway
 s works. Heroes break the law\, ignore ethics\, and act without mercy agai
 nst America's enemies. The author recounts triumphs and debacles but mostl
 y delivers a splendid education in psychology and political science as she
  explains the role\, operation\, and limitations of intelligence. Intellig
 ence organizations provide information\, never policy\, which is politicia
 ns' responsibility\, and bad things happen when they forget this.\n\nAll s
 ervices gather data\, which becomes intelligence only when it is analyzed 
 and used to make predictions. Unfortunately\, intelligence predictions are
  too often wrong\, for reasons the author explains in a brilliant section\
 , "The Seven Deadly Biases\," which should be taught in schools along with
  multiplication tables. According to confirmation bias\, humans (not exclu
 ding analysts) readily accept facts that confirm what they believe and rej
 ect those that contradict it. Readers who assume that catching spies and c
 overt action are straightforward and that Congress keeps an eye on our int
 elligence services will learn the error of their ways. Zegart's conclusion
  offers further unsettling news: In the wireless 21st-century world\, espi
 onage\, sabotage\, and brainwashing are no longer the province of governme
 nt agencies\; nearly anyone with an internet connection can do it.
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SUMMARY:HAI Weekly Seminar with Amy Zegart
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 _zegart
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